MathDay2024 Season

April 25th, 2024

Register by April 23rd!

About MathDay2024

Share Ideas
Share Ideas

Share your mathematical ideas with others!

Be Social
Be Social

Have fun and play some games with other like-minded people!

Learn Tools
Learn Tools

Learn how mathematics can make engineer more robust and reliable!

Speakers

Tommi
Sottinen
Tommi<br>Sottinen

Luca
Ferranti
Luca<br>Ferranti

Bernd
Pape
Bernd<br>Pape

Foad
Shokrollahi
Foad<br>Shokrollahi

Samuli
Siltanen
Samuli<br>Siltanen

Part 1

Part 1
Morning snacks

Coffee and pulla to activate the brain before starting

Talks

Fabriikki, room F118

  • Tommi Sottinen Diving into the Fascinating Realms of the Heat Equation and Brownian Motion

  • Luca Ferranti The maths behind machine learning and artificial intelligence, what works and what doesn't and why.

  • Bernd Pape How to Secure the Car and Avoid the Goat in a TV Show

Is maths difficult?

General interactive dicussion about the challenges students face in learning mathematics.

Lunch break

Restaurant August

Part 2

Part 2
Talks

Fabriikki, room F118

  • Foad Shokrollahi Unveiling the World of Discrete Markov Chains and Their Applications

  • Hendrik Wietsma Formulate & solve numerically some physically motivated phenomenon with differential equations.

  • Samuli Siltanen The magic of math: three-dimensional X-ray vision

How and why math works?

Interactive discussion with coffee and snacks

Game session

Let's have some fun together playing some videogames on Fabriikki's second floor! With snacks and drinks for registered participants!

Location

  • University of Vaasa
  • Wolffintie 32, Vaasa
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